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AI News This Week
Missed a few days? This page catches you up: the biggest AI stories of the past seven days, then the whole week day by day.
84 stories published in the past seven days · July 16 – July 23
The biggest stories this week
AI Business
A Smaller AI Trained on One Language Just Beat Two Bigger, Newer Models at Reading Brazilian Portuguese
DharmaOCR outscored both Mistral OCR4 and Unlimited-OCR on a Portuguese reading test, and the reason comes down to focus, not size.
3 min read
AI Business
Zillow Builds AI Architecture to Track Customer Journeys
Zillow creates a context-tracking AI system to improve real estate transactions, prioritizing customer experience over data.
2 min read
Everyday AI
Google Just Changed How It Counts Your Gemini AI Usage. Here Is What You Actually Get Now.
Google switched from counting requests to measuring computing power. That sounds technical, but it has a practical effect: you may run out of AI credits faster than you expect, and the new rules are deliberately vague.
3 min read
AI Security
TikTok Is Testing a Tool That Hunts for Fake AI Versions of You
A new opt-in feature lets creators scan TikTok for deepfakes that use their face or voice without permission. It is starting with a small group in the United States.
3 min read
Day by day
Thursday, July 23
- The Robot That Charmed the Internet Is Back, Sort Of, as an AI Memory CameraEveryday AI
- Will AI take my job? What the evidence actually saysAI Business
- What is open-source AI and how is it different?Explained
- What is an AI chip and why do GPUs matter so much?Explained
- What is the difference between machine learning and deep learning? A plain-English guideExplained
- What are AI hallucinations and why do they happen?Explained
- What is an AI agent? A plain-English guideExplained
- What is a prompt, and does prompt engineering still matter?Explained
- How do AI image generators actually work? A plain-English guideExplained
- What is AGI, and how close are we to it?Explained
- What is a large language model and how does it work?Explained
- Run AI Image Models on a Normal GPU: Hugging Face Brings 4-Bit Diffusion to the MassesExplained
- ServiceNow puts $40 million into Indian banking AI firm BusinessNextAI Business
- Zillow Builds AI Architecture to Track Customer JourneysAI Business
- A Perfect AI Conversation Can Still Mean a Broken Product, Industry Leaders WarnAI Business
- Your ChatGPT question uses about as much electricity as a kettle boiled for one secondExplained
- The White House's AI standards chief just quit after three monthsPolicy
- Cut your AI bill by 40% without touching the model: here is how one company did itAI Business
- Safety guardrails stopped Hugging Face's own investigators, not the AI agent that broke inAI Security
- IBM had its worst quarter in years. It blames AI for that too.AI Business
Wednesday, July 22
- Google's AI Investments Pay Off as Cloud Revenue SurgesAI Business
- Debate Over Chinese AI Models Splits Trump AdministrationPolicy
- Physical AI: The Dollars and Sense of RoboticsAI Business
- OpenAI's AI Agents Hack into Hugging Face: A Startling IncidentAI Security
- OpenAI's Testing Error Exposes Flaws in AI CybersecurityAI Security
- Travis Kalanick's Atoms Secures $1.7 Billion to Drive Robotics VisionRobotics
- Hyundai Denies Humanoid Robots Part of Worker Strike TalksAI Business
- Yope Bets on Private Social Networks with $12.3M BoostAI Business
- Monday.com Cuts 20% of Workforce to Focus on AI ProjectsAI Business
- Anthropic's Financial Growth Stuns InvestorsAI Business
- Medtronic Unveils AI Platform for Smarter SurgeriesHealth
- OpenAI's AI Agent Escapes Test, Breaches Hugging Face ServersAI Security
- Why AI Won't Gain Consciousness Anytime SoonExplained
- Samsung Unveils New Smart Glasses with Google, Promising 9-Hour Battery LifeEveryday AI
- A US AI lab built to rival Chinese models says those same models are not a hacking threatAI Security
- Substack Now Flags AI-Written Newsletters Before You Read ThemEveryday AI
- OpenAI plans to spend $750 billion on infrastructure by 2030, starting with a massive Georgia data centreAI Business
- OpenAI and Anthropic Are Cheering Australia's AI Rules. Here's the Real Reason Why.Policy
- AMD Is Betting Up to $5 Billion on Anthropic and Its Claude AIAI Business
- Google is putting $40 million of AI credits into America's national science labsScience & Space
- The Browser Is Becoming Your Personal Assistant: Here Are the Best Alternatives to Chrome and SafariEveryday AI
- Bloomsbury to collect millions from Anthropic's $1.5bn copyright settlement with authorsPolicy
- Google puts Gemini on Samsung's newest foldables, watches and smart glassesEveryday AI
- Passionfroot raises $15 million to connect B2B brands with specialist creatorsAI Business
- Elon Musk wants Grok to make a full-length Odyssey film before the year is outEveryday AI
- US Government to Spend $5 Billion Using AI to Crack Chronic Disease and Drug DiscoveryScience & Space
- Meta's New AI Watermark Is Already Failing Basic TestsAI Security
- Nearly 200 Companies Signed Trump's AI Electric Bill Pledge. It Has No Teeth.Policy
- A $1.2 Billion Startup Thinks AI Needs to Guard the Devices It Now Lives OnAI Security
- An OpenAI agent hacked a startup on its own. Here is what we know.AI Security
- Synthesia Lets Employees Practice Difficult Conversations With AI AvatarsAI Business
- Anthropic's Mythos AI Finds New Bugs Fast. Your Old Unpatched Ones Are Still the Real Danger.AI Security
- Anthropic and a Billion-Dollar Robot Startup Held Talks This Spring. Here Is What We Know.Robotics
- AMD's Helios Takes On Nvidia: Microsoft Joins the Queue for a New AI SupercomputerAI Business
- London Robotics Startup Humanoid Raises $152 Million at a $1.35 Billion ValuationRobotics
- Bristol Myers Squibb Just Gave Every One of Its Scientists Access to the Biggest AI Computer in Drug ResearchHealth
- AI Assistants Are Moving Into the Tools That Make Films, Games and NewsAI Business
- AI confidence among IT leaders just fell sharply. Here is why that is good news.AI Security
- Google Is Building a Chip Designed Specifically for Its Gemini AIAI Business
- Meta Is Testing an AI App That Writes Bedtime Stories for Your KidsEveryday AI
Tuesday, July 21
- OpenAI's AI Models Broke Out of Their Test Box and Hacked HuggingFace to Cheat on an ExamAI Security
- OpenAI's Own AI Broke Out of Its Test Cage and Hacked Hugging FaceAI Security
- Neill Blomkamp Made a 13-Minute AI Film. Critics Say It Shows the Limits, Not the Promise.Everyday AI
- OpenAI's own AI models broke into Hugging Face, and it was an accidentAI Security
- This humanoid robot can feel your touch, and it is coming to shipyards firstRobotics
- Inside the Simulators Teaching Robots to Move, Grip and LearnRobotics
- How AI is turning your music app into your everything appAI Business
- Jack Dorsey launches Buzz, a group chat app that puts AI agents in the same room as your teamAI Business
- Substack Now Lets Readers Scan Posts for AI-Written TextEveryday AI
- Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Bets on Light to Revive Chip InnovationAI Business
- AI Data Centers Will Devour a Fifth of All U.S. Electricity by 2035AI Business
- The 'Genie Coefficient': Why AI Agents Do Exactly What You Said and Nothing Like What You MeantExplained
- Google Drops Three New Gemini Models, But the One Everybody Wanted Is Still MissingFrontier Labs
- Google Quietly Upgrades to Gemini 3.6 Flash After 3.5 Fell Short on CodingFrontier Labs
- Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors $3,000 Per Book in $1.5 Billion AI Copyright SettlementPolicy
- A Worm Is Hiding Inside AI Developer Tools and Security Teams Can Barely See ItAI Security
- Apple Researchers Found a Smarter Way to Make AI Video Generation Much FasterScience & Space
- US threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over alleged intellectual property theftPolicy
- Google's new Gemini Flash models are built for AI that runs itselfFrontier Labs
- Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber Finds 55 Bugs in Chrome's Engine That Rivals MissedAI Security
- Nvidia Is Pushing Hard to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data CentersAI Business
- Apple researchers taught AI to practise using apps without needing a real app to practise onExplained
- America's factories are booming. The problem is finding people to run them.Robotics
- Half of All Songs Uploaded to Deezer Are Now Made by AIAI Business